Help?

I don't suppose anyone happened to record last Saturday's show from the feed or over the air...but if you did, please let me know!

Pictures from Princess Katie & Racer Steve at Cup & Top

Thanks, as always, to Sienna for the great pictures, and to Cup & Top Cafe for hosting a great show!

4/28/07 Playlist

Gaaaaah! Something went burpy with the recording about 30 minutes into the show and the rest of it was unlistenable. Particularly huge bummer since Princess Katie & Racer Steve were on. Curses! Curses! Curses!

Thank you to PK&RS, though, for being great guests and putting on a terrific show at Cup & Top. They rocked.

The archive -- about 30 minutes worth -- is here.


Legal ID (8:00)
They Might Be Giants - It's Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - Wake Up Call (No!)
Steve Lee - Wake-Up (What Did You Do Today, Stephen Scott Lee?)
Anna Oxygen - Born to Shake (Play!)
Asheba - Little Anancy (Caribbean Playground)
Specials - Rudi, a Message to You (The Singles Collection)
--song ID
Mike Doughty - 27 Jennifers (Rockity Roll)
Jessica Harper - Four Boys Named Jordan (Inside Out!)
SteveSongs - Opposite Day (Live at Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child)
Trout Fishing in America - My Hair Had a Party Last Night (My Best Day)
--song ID
Fishbone - Everyday Sunshine (The Reality of My Surroundings)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Rancher Ants (Freedom in a Box)
CandyBand - Ken Lost His Head (Candy Band)
Mr. Billy - Reading is Magic (Greatest Hits)
Ernie & Neal - Every Day (Rock the House)
All - Frog
Yosi - Hole in the Ground (Under a Big Bright Yellow Umbrella)
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
--legal ID
-Princess Katie & Racer Steve live in-studio
-It's Not Mine
-The Pillow
-Tell the Truth
De La Soul - The Magic Number
Roger Day - Parachute Girl (Ready to Fly)
Juice Pops - Penny in my Pocket
Monty Harper - Hummingbird Hum (Paws Claws Scales & Tales)
Bill Harley - 50 Ways to Fool Your Mother (Play it Again)
Vatican III - Grandma Does the Hustle (Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Live at Jalopy)
Telephone Company - Mustache (The King's Surprise?)
--song ID
They Might Be Giants - Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (Severe Tire Damage)

Hilltown Families Podcast

Our VFR neighbors have launched the podcast of their show. Check it out!

That Might Be a Podcast

...and the most current They Might Be Giants podcast includes the "It's Spare the Rock" tune they recorded for us.

Wade in the Glory that is the Hipwaders

...or at least a guest DJ set with Hipwader Tito, coming up on June 16.

(I know, that's a ways off. It's a busy spring and we have some travel.)

Spring is here (finally)

I've been trying to seed some bare patches in the yard, clean up the pond (sadly disposing of the frog that apparently hoped to winter over there), and so on, and the kids have been enjoying spring while listening to Gooney Bird Kids Radio on our new cheap outdoor speakers.

Rudnick Pictures

(I will in fact get more pictures up from the Nields and Dan Schorr. Honest.)

A couple of pictures, courtesy of Sienna, from Ben Rudnick & Friends at Cup & Top. Click on them for bigger versions.

Playlist for 4/21/07

Busy, busy day.

Archive is here.

They Might Be Giants - Meet James Ensor (Severe Tire Damage)
Isaac Hayes - The Grumps (A World of Happiness)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Nellie Bly (Freedom in a Box)
Louis Armstrong - Sunny Side of the Street (Back Through the Years)
Ben Rudnick live in studio
-My Name is Burt
-Here Comes the Sun
-MTA
-Supercalifragilisticexpialidotious
ScribbleMonster - Beautiful Day (Chocolate Milk)
Justin Roberts - It's Your Birthday (Meltdown!)
CandyBand - It's Your Birthday (Calling All Kids)
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (Hello Nasty)
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
--legal ID
--song ID
-Recess Monkey Guest DJ Set:
Recess Monkey - 3 Rs for Ours
Ken Nordine - Green
XTC - Season Cycle
Kermit the Frog - Bein' Green
-song ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead - East to the West
Eels - A Daisy Through Concrete
Dan Zanes - Country Life
Jack Johnson - 3 Rs
Recess Monkey - Helicopter Promo
Central Services' Board of Education - Ice Ages are Fun!
Woody Guthrie - Car Song
Fountains of Wayne - Valley of Malls
Recess Monkey - The Mic is On
Recess Monkey - Aquarium
Jellydots - Bicycle
Super Furry Animals - It's Not the End of the World?
--song ID
Weezer - Best Friend
Old 97's - King of All the World (Satellite Rides)
Frances England - Tricycle (Fascinating Creatures)
Lunch Money - Tricycle (Silly Reflection)
Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo (Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits)
Imagination Movers - Shakable Fruit (Good Ideas)
--song ID
They Might Be Giants - Employee of the Month

I've Been Remiss

I really haven't plugged this week's visit from Ben Rudnick, but I promise it's not because I'm not excited about it -- I just frankly can't believe it's almost April 21. Be sure to (a) listen -- the band will be on in the first half of the show -- and (b) come to Cup & Top at around 10 to see them play a free show. They came out to Florence back in the earliest days of the show and we recorded a session with them at a local studio, and it was just great watching them work together. It's fun, gentle, sometimes-wandering-but-in-a-good-way, music.

Add in the Recess Monkey guest set in the second half (and Fountains of Wayne live that night), and it'll be a great day of music.

(No, I haven't finished editing the Brooklyn tracks. Too much travel and day job demands. [Observe the time of this post.])

Recess Monkey Debut Song

I'm finally back from Cincinnati. (And our team did great, reaching the semifinals. Final four out of thirty teams is pretty great!)

Ella really enjoyed the couple of dozen birthday greetings she got; thanks, all.

This Saturday, Recess Monkey is doing a guest DJ set, and they're debuting a brand new song while they're at it. Cool, no?

Pinnochio Comes to Northampton

Several friends have kids at Nonotuck preschool, a local cooperative preschool. Coming up on May 3 at 5:00 pm, they're presenting a fundraiser with the Connecticut Opera's version of Pinnochio. It'll be at the Northampton High School and tickets are $7 in advance. Call 413-586-5996 for more information.

Happy Birthday to Ella

Ella's eighth birthday is tomorrow (Friday).

I am celebrating by being in Cincinnati coaching a moot court team. Hooray.

But you can make it special by sending birthday greetings to her - either as a comment to this post (which I will get to her) or by sending an e-mail to us at show AT sparetherock DOT com (which I will also get to her).

2007-04-14 Playlist

Thanks to Sienna & Persephone for filling in!

Archive is here, a couple of days early since I'm off to Cincinnati to hang out, no doubt, with Johnny Fever.

Legal ID
Spare the Rock
They Might Be Giants - "Alphabet Lost and Found"
Rebecca Frezza - "Space Dog"
Billy Bragg & The Blocks "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8"
Gustafer Yellowgold - "Pterodactyl Tuxedo"
The Juice Pops - "Silly Silly"
Liz Phair - "Whip-Smart"
Randy Kaplan - "Shampoo Me"
AudraRox - "Moms & Dads"
Steve Songs - "Fast Monkey"
Uncle Rock - "Rock Out!"
"ARE YOU PREPARED TO ROCK?!"
Ernie & Neal - "Pre-School Rock"
The Beatles - "Revolution"
Asylum Street Spankers - "Mommy Says No!"
AurdaRox - "Hope My Mama Says YES!"
David Weinstone - "Runaround Kid"
Mark Berube - "Basketball Boogie"
The Ditty Bops - "Your head's Too Big"
Dan Zanes - "Wonder Wheel"

2nd hour

Scribble Monster - "Spare the Rock"
Taj Mahal - "Banana Boat Song"
Taj Mahal - "Brown Girl in the Ring"
Snake Oil Medicine Show - "The Farmyard Trilogy"
Astrograss & Friends - "Drunken Sailor"
Buckwheat Zydeco - "Choo Choo Boogaloo"
Buckwheat Zydeco - "On A Night Like This"
Music for Aardvarks and other Mammals - "Bellybutton Song"
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - "The Lion Sleeps Tonite"
Little Eva - "The Loco-Motion"
Ricardio Lemvo - "Mambo Yo Yo"
Miriam Makeba - "Pata Pata"
Maria Muldaur - "Swing on a Star"
Bonnie Lockhart - "Tootsie in the Moonlight"
David Weinstone - "Big Boom Whacker"
David Weinstone - "Race ya To The Corner"
Guy David - "I Will Be Your Friend"
Keb Mo - "Love Train"

Chocolate Milk's Great

...and you can see part of ScribbleJim performing "Chocolate Milk" at our Brooklyn shindig with his ScribbleSon here.

The Nields

Here's a first picture from their visit to the show yesterday; more to come.



(That's Dan Schorr's daughter in the foreground.)

Thanks to Sienna for the picture!

I have some pictures of Dan performing that I'll get uploaded presently.

2007-04-07 Playlist

Archive is here.

Computer died partway through the Nields final song, which is a huge drag. The rest of it was great, too.

--legal ID (7:59)
They Might Be Giants - Dr. Worm (Severe Tire Damage)
Feist - Mushaboom
ScribbleJim - The Song of Life (Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Live at Jalopy)
Peter Himmelman - Have You Ever Really Looked at an Egg? (My Green Kite)
Dan Schorr live in-studio
-Ogres on the Fourth of July
-Mommy Look at Everything That I Can Do
-When the Aliens Come to Town
Ella Fitzgerald - Slap that Bass (Gershwin Song Book)
--song ID
Hold Steady - Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Visqueen - Centerfield (Play)
Milkshake - Baseball (Play!)
Danny Adlerman - In the Future (Listen Up!)
10cc - Life is a Minestrone
Frank Black - Abstract Plain (Teenager of the Year)
Astrograss & Friends - Drunken Sailor (Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Live at Jalopy)
Posies - Flavor of the Month
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
--legal ID (9:03)
Nields live in-studio
-Anna/Ella/Hannah Kick a Hole in the Sky
-Frog on a Log
-Endless Day
-Nicholas Ridiculous
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan
Elizabeth Mitchell - Froggy Went a Courtin
Sharp Cookies - Ella Gorilla (Muddy Water Beaver Dam Band)
ArtsCetera - Jean Petite qui Danse (Sing, Shout & Clap!)
Randy Kaplan - Shampoo Me (Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Live at Jalopy)
Ralph's World - At the Bottom of the Sea (At the Bottom of the Sea)
TMBG - House at the Top of the Tree

You Are Charlie Rose

if by "Charlie Rose" you read "me" and Charlie Rose was interviewing They Might Be Giants.

As I mentioned before (but it was in a sorta long post), we're probably going to be interviewing the band before their gigs here in Northampton on May 5. And we'd like to ask questions that you might find interesting.

I thought of one I rather like earlier today: "What band that broke up during your tenure do you wish was still around?"

So: post your ideas in the comments.

Airplane Jane, In Fact, Has No Last Name.

Mr. Richard (who's hosting the show on June 2 and appearing at Cup & Top the same day) as his very first music video up on YouTube now, and it's for probably our favorite song of his, "Airplane Jane":



It's a fun, lively video for a fun, lively song.

This week...

The Nields. Dan Schorr. New Danny Adlerman, Sharp Cookies, ArtsCetera, and more.

Plus: a kid-appropriate Hold Steady song you've never heard before. (At least not in full. And probably not at all.)

Edit: Doh! Then, as Stefan notes, they go and post it on their MySpace page after sending it to me. Oh well, if you don't go there, you won't have heard it.)

Welcome, Time Out NY Kids Readers

Time Out NY Kids sent Evan Narcisse to our little event and here is his report.

Pictures, pictures, pictures

Our Brooklyn album is here.

I unfortunately failed to track which pictures came from whom. Most are ours, but some are from Amy Davis and some are from Lunch Money and some are from Rebecca Frezza (edit and some are from GBK Gwyneth). I'm super sorry for mixing them up. If you drop me a line and tell me which ones you took, I'll credit you if you like.

Enjoy!